Culture
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Miles Franklin Literary Award 2021 shortlist announced
Australian-Indian author Aravind Adiga, who won the Booker in 2008 with his debut The White Tiger, is one of six…
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Guide to the Classics: Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, a tragicomedy for our times
Vivian Mercier, the critic for the Irish Times, dubbed it “a play in which nothing happens, twice.” Mark Byron The…
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Belvoir’s The Cherry Orchard is a laugh-out-loud tragedy for uncertain times
But the conditions for those future events were already all around him. Huw Griffiths The Conversation Rapid industrialisation and urbanisation…
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National photo competition captures pain, humour and humanity of COVID-19 pandemic
It’s one of a series of striking photos a national photographic competition highlighting life during the pandemic. Emma Siossian &…
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The golden ratio: an ancient Greek formula could be responsible for most hit musicals
A simple question asked frequently of those who have achieved greatness in their field. Stephen Langston The Conversation Sometimes, that…
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If I could go anywhere: searching for music in the places where Chopin lived and died
But while landmark destinations, such as Carnegie Hall or Glyndebourne, are wonderful to visit, it can be paradoxical to travel…
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We are failing women if a man still has the right to rape his wife
We must speak out, writes Johanna Higgs. ΙΑ I WAS on Rarotonga, the biggest of all of the Cook Islands — a…
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If I could go anywhere: Florence’s San Marco Museum, where mystical faith and classical knowledge meet
I had been totally overwhelmed by the volume and concentration of great art in the nearby Uffizi Gallery. Joanna Mendelssohn…
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Words perfect: favourite new books for Mother’s Day
If your mum loves Australian fiction, here are three that should please. In Claire Thomas’s The Performance, three women from…
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What were the Spartans like?
In the second episode of the current season of the TV show Lego Masters, contestants were asked to build a…
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Revealed: police barred from searching Queen’s estates for looted artefacts
Police have been barred from searching the Queen’s private estates for stolen or looted artefacts after ministers granted her a…
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Australia’s education system must move away from its colonial world view
Nothing is more important for the future of society than our jarjums (children). Nathan Towney for IndigenousX The Guardian Their…
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Botticelli to Van Gogh: from luminous, lyrical beauty to the spoils of empire
The two events are not connected, but they do signal how times have changed. Joanna Mendelssohn The Conversation Since 1963,…
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A first for truth-telling in our nation’s history
For the first time in our history, Aboriginal people can finally tell the truth, and all of Australia will listen.…
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Nobel winner Kazuo Ishiguro reaches for the sun
Our narrator, Klara, is a robot, an “Artificial Friend”, or AF, designed as a subservient companion for children. Liam Pieper…
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First Sikh school hopes to create future leaders
Sikh Grammar School in Rouse Hill will welcome students of all backgrounds and denominations, but expects to attract mostly children…
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